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When Wall Street met main street

the quest for an investor's democracy

The financial crisis that began in 2008 has made Americans keenly aware of the enormous impact Wall Street has on the economic well-being of the nation and its citizenry. How did financial markets and institutions--commonly perceived as marginal and elitist at the beginning of the ...

Business History

complexities and comparisons

This major new textbook on business history brings together the expertise of two internationally renowned authors to provide a thorough overview of the developments in business over the last two centuries. "Business History" is global in scope and looks at both the major players - Europe ...

Age of greed

the triumph of finance and the decline of America, 1970 to the present

A vividly told history of how greed bred America’s economic ills over the last forty years, and of the men most responsible for them.As Jeff Madrick makes clear in a narrative at once sweeping, fast-paced, and incisive, the single-minded pursuit of huge personal wealth ...

Regulating the british economy, 1660-1850

This collection of chapters focuses on the regulation of the British economy in the long eighteenth century as a means to understand the synergies between political, social and economic change as Britain was transformed into a global power. Inspired by recent research on consumerism and ...

Scarcity and frontiers

how economies have developed through natural resource exploitation

Throughout much of history, a critical driving force behind global economic development has been the response of society to the scarcity of key natural resources. Increasing scarcity raises the cost of exploiting existing natural resources and creates incentives in all economies to innovate and conserve ...

The Israeli economy from the foundation of the State throught the 21st Century

This book analyzes the development of the Israeli economy in its historical context. It shows how the ideology of the dominant group in the Zionist movement led to the development of agriculture, thus meeting the preconditions for successful industrialization. Remarkable, if uneven, growth has taken ...

Un siglo de historia del sistema financiero español

Este libro describe la evolución del sistema financiero español desde principios del siglo XX hasta la primera década del siglo XXI, incluyendo también referencias al marco económico, social y político. Se examina el sistema financiero desde distintos aspectos tales como: sus principales reformas; la regulación ...

The Great Recession

history, odeology, hubris and nemesis

Many books on the 2008 financial crisis and the current recession focus on the financial sector. Unlike them, this book takes the real economy as the starting point and it situates the downturn within the societal context over the last several decades. Important elements of ...

Guaranteed to fail

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the debacle of mortgage finance

The financial collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in 2008 led to one of the most sweeping government interventions in private financial markets in history. The bailout has already cost American taxpayers close to $150 billion, and substantially more will be needed. The U ...

A great leap forward

1930s Depression and U.S. economic growth

This thoughtful re-examination of the history of U.S. economic growth is built around a novel claim, that potential output grew dramatically across the Depression years (1929-1941) and that this advance provided the foundation for the economic and military success of the United States during ...

Historia financiera de Europa

Este es el primer intento de escribir una Historia financiera de Europa desde el inicio de los tiempos modernos. Un libro semejante no había sido escrito hasta ahora, aunque contásemos con algunas historias generales del dinero y con monografías sobre las finanzas de un solo ...

The wizard of lies

Bernie Madoff and the death of trust

Who is Bernie Madoff, and how did he pull off the biggest Ponzi scheme in history? In "The Wizard of Lies", Diana B. Henriques of "The New York Times" - who has led the paper's coverage of the Madoff scandal since the day the story ...

The contemporary global economy

a history since 1980

The Contemporary Global Economy provides a lively overview of recent turbulence in the world economy, focusing on the dynamics of globalization since the 1980s. It explains the main drivers of economic change and how we are able to discern their effects in the world today ...

Ben Graham was a quant

raising the IQ of the intelligent investor

Innovative insights on creating models that will help you become a disciplined intelligent investor The pioneer of value investing, Benjamin Graham, believed in a philosophy that continues to be followed by some of today's most successful investors, such as Warren Buffett. Part of this ...

Pricing the future

finance, physics, and the 300-year journey to the black-scholes equation: a story of genius and discovery

Options have been traded for hundreds of years - at least since the sixteenth century when they were used to buy and sell commodities in Antwerp and Amsterdam - but for centuries nobody knew what their true value really was. They were traded at prices determined by ...

La comptabilité publique en Europe

1500-1850

Ce livre est l'un des premiers à présenter une histoire comparée du contrôle et de la comptabilité publique dans l'Europe des Etats modernes. Il l'aborde sans a priori, ni sur les " carences " (la diversité des caisses, la multiplicité des ordonnateurs, l'absence ...

Fiscalidad y poder real en Castilla

(1252-1369)

Nueva edición del libro del mismo título publicado en 1993, que recibió el Premio Nacional de Historia del Ministerio de Cultura. En 'Fiscalidad y poder real en Castilla', se estudia e interpreta la profunda transformación del sistema hacendístico de la monarquía castellana desde mediados del ...

Tres siglos de comercio sevillano (1598-1868)

cuestiones y problemas

Clásico de la literatura mercantil sevillana, desde la formación del Imperio colonial y la constitución del monopolio comercial con América, hasta la etapa precursora, a mediados del siglo XIX, que diera origen en 1886 a la actual Cámara de Comercio de Sevilla. La obra se ...

The business of empire

United Fruit, race, and U.S. expansion in Central America

The link between private corporations and U.S. world power has a much longer history than most people realize. Transnational firms such as the United Fruit Company represent an earlier stage of the economic and cultural globalization now taking place throughout the world. Drawing on ...